blue like jazz: the movie

I’ve been hearing bits and pieces about the Blue Like Jazz movie for awhile now, and it makes me very excited for 2 reasons. 1, I loved the book, probably one of my favorite books of all time. Don Miller is a genius, and he put into words a lot of what I’d been feeling [...]

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good news for baby alli

This has been an extremely crazy week, so my apologies on the lack of blog love thats been comin’ atcha this week. But I did want to share this one little bit of info, Beck told me earlier that our friends Richard and Janna have gotten a few good reports this week (thats right, a [...]

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where 7 or more are gathered

I’ve posted several updates about our friends little girl Alli, if you need to play catch up see the original post here, and here are some pics. The short version is that she was born at 28 weeks, which means she was 12 weeks premature. She’s been in the hospital for over a month already, [...]

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a glorious design

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. /Ephesians [...]

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reading stack

Where should I start?

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how much of God do you want?

In my prep for last weekends message, I came across this quote from Wilbur Rees that didn’t make it in the final cut of the message, but its definitely worth sharing. It slapped me across the face, and I hope it does the same for you. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, [...]

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healer

Over the last month or so we’ve done a new song called ‘Healer’ a few times, its a beautiful and moving song. I’d picked up a little of the story behind the song from different people, and then today I ran across this video on Brad’s blog. This is totally worth your time. Take a [...]

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baby alli update

We found out last night that little Alli had to have a blood transfusion yesterday (read the rest of Alli’s story here). It had been mentioned Saturday that it was a possibility, but when Richard and Janna walked in on Sunday, Alli was right in the middle of the procedure. And as you can imagine [...]

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baby alli photos

Baby Alli is still doing really well (read the backstory here). She is a fighter! Beck and I went up to Birmingham earlier in the week to see them and I was able to snap a few pics. There are more here.    

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baby alli update

First off let me just say thanks to everyone who has prayed for baby Alli. If you have no idea what the heck I’m talking about, read the original post here. Little Alli is doing great, only minor problems, most of which are normal considering she is 12 weeks early. Right now she is weighing [...]

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one prayer recap

I’ve loved the One Prayer series, its been incredible. Not only is it one of the most innovative things the global church has done, but its had an amazing effect on our local church. From our congregations perspective, we’ve never had much outside influence or oversight. We’re a part of a larger denomination for accountability [...]

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dust series

This is a bit of a repost, but this time its for Creative Chaos. We started a series on Easter called Dust. The series concept was simple, follow Jesus so closely that your covered in the dust of his feet. Pastor talked a lot about passion, liking that to the dust we gather. So in keeping [...]

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